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«If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.»
«If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it»
«Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.»
«A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
toil, tribute, tributes
«You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness . . .»
«Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
alert, asserting, disposition, fiery, invasion, liable, Pride and, prompt, prompter, resolute
«How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.»
«Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
daylight, elbow, elbowing, proverb, throat
«A good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing»
«Mellow nuts have the hardest rind»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
mellow, mellows, nuts, rind
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